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THE MET:
SCREENINGS FOR 2009-2010
The
Metropolitan Opera is back, giving patrons live Met performances projected on
the big screen in Staller Center’s Main Stage Theatre. Performances are in
high definition with Dolby Digital surround sound. The Met: Live in HD Series
will present nine live transmissions this season.
All programs begin at 1 pm.
Tickets are on sale
now! Follow this link to order tickets on-line.
Tickets: $22 general admission; $20 senior citizens
with ID on file; $15 students and children through the Staller Center Box
Office, (631) 632-ARTS [2787] or online at stallercenter.com.
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Carmen
Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 1 pm
Composer: Georges Bizet
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Micaëla: Barbara Frittoli
Carmen: Elīna Garanča
Don José: Roberto Alagna
One of the most popular operas of
all time, Carmen “is about sex,
violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” says Olivier
Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production
of Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art.
It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.”
Elīna Garanča sings the seductive gypsy of the title for the first
time at the Met, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.
Approximate running time - 3
hours 25 min / 1 intermission |
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Les Contes d’Hoffmann*
Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 1 pm
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Conductor: James Levine
Olympia: Kathleen Kim
Antonia/Stella: Anna Netrebko
Hoffmann: Rolando Villazón
*Rebroadcast from
December 19, 2009
Tony Award® winner Bartlett
Sher (South Pacific) directs this new
production, returning after the triumph of his Met Barber of Seville
(seen live in HD in the 2006–07 season). Offenbach’s fictionalized
take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A.
Hoffmann is a fascinating psychological journey. Met Music
Director James Levine conducts star tenor Rolando Villazón in the
tour-de-force title role, with Anna Netrebko as the tragic Antonia,
Elīna Garanča as the ambiguous Nicklausse, and René Pape as the
demonic four villains.
Approximate running time - 3
hours 30 minutes / 2 intermissions |
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Simon Boccanegra
Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 1 pm
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: James Levine
Amelia: Adrianne Pieczonka
Gabriele Adorno: Marcello Giordani
Simon Boccanegra: Plácido Domingo
Four decades into a legendary
Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo
makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political
thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka,
Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in
this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter.
James Levine conducts.
Approximate running time - 3
hours 40 minutes / 2 intermissions
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Hamlet*
Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 1 pm
Composer: Ambroise Thomas
Conductor: Louis Langrée
Ophélie: Natalie Dessay
Gertrude: Jennifer Larmore
Laërte: Toby Spence
Hamlet: Simon Keenlyside
Claudius: James Morris
*Rebroadcast from March 27,
2010
The works of Shakespeare have
inspired more operatic
adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and
Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills
to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new
production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia,
the French composer created an extended mad scene that is
among the greatest in opera.
Approximate running time - 3
hours 45 minutes / 1 intermission
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Armida
Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 1 pm
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Armida: Renée Fleming
Rinaldo: Lawrence Brownlee
This story of a sorceress who
enthralls men in her island prison has
inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including
Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of
Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award®
winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of
a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The
fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic,
enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”
Approximate running time - 4
hours 20 minutes / 2 intermissions |
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